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100 YEARS AGO March 13, 1918
BENTON —Dr. S.P. Weigart of Little Rock, district agent of the University Extension Division, today organized Saline county for a fruit growing campaign. The object is to arouse the farmers to the necessity of planting more fruit trees and increasing the acreage. A special campaign committee was named, consisting of County Judge J. S. Abercrombie, L. W. White and S. C. Bush and every township in the county will be visited.
50 YEARS AGO March 13, 1968
North Little Rock voters elected a Negro, John Wesley Smith, and re-elected Board President Fred C. Storm to the School Board Tuesday. At the same time the voters approved the continuation of a 55-mill school tax that included transfer of one mill from debt service to operations for teacher salaries. Smith, a contractor who had the support of two progressive organizations, defeated incumbent Charles W. Stroud, by 207 votes. Stroud had been the lone representative of a once-powerful conservative faction that was defeated in last year’s school election. Smith, who ran unsuccessfully for the Board three years ago, received most of his support from the Negro community and from the all-white Park Hill-Lakewood areas.
25 YEARS AGO March 13, 1993
A father and son who were videotaped beating a burglar with a baseball bat pleaded guilty Friday. Jerry Stanley, 50, and his son, Mitch, 27, each received fiveyear suspended sentences in Ashley County Circuit Court. Authorities said the Stanleys had a relative videotape an intruder entering their home with a baseball bat. The videotape showed the pair then take the bat from Craig Shawn, 19, and beat him with it. Authorities said the pair struck Shawn at least 28 times. Mike McBarron, 22, who was accused of holding Shawn during the beating, also received a fiveyear suspended sentence Friday from Judge Stark Ligon.
10 YEARS AGO March 13, 2008
The Washington County sheriff on Wednesday suspended a bailiff for a month without pay for leaving a woman in a holding cell without food or water for four days. Cpl. Jarrod Hankins, who has been on the job for two months, is expected to return to his job after the suspension, according to a news release from Sheriff Tim Helder. “I realize some people may have expected Hankins to be terminated, however my philosophy is if an employee makes a mistake while trying their best to perform their duties, I will try to salvage them,” Helder said in the release.